Published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media
January 31, 2013
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| (Photo by Erik Holladay, erikholladay.com) |
At Prairieview Elementary in Battle Creek, Michigan, a program called Developing the Community helps people and organizations make the connections students need for better lives and more learning. Zinta Aistars has the story of one school's holistic approach to education.
At first approach, Prairieview Elementary School in Battle Creek is like most any other elementary school. Walk up the sidewalk to the main door, and the chatter and laughter of children resound from the playground at right. Inside the 1930s building, bells ring, and the long tiled hallways suddenly fill with the clatter of steps, giggles and banter, whoops, and happy hollers. Teachers emerge from classrooms and herd the children into neat lines, instilling order.
"Michigan's governor Snyder attended this school," Don Hoaglin says with a smile. He's the principal of Prairieview Elementary. He rushes from a meeting with a group of parents to talk to a teacher about a child making something of a ruckus down the hall, and back to his office again to take a moment to talk.
"That child you hear shouting," he says, nodding toward the hallway outside his office door, "could be a case of ..."
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